The revolver, a handgun with a rotating cylinder, was first patented by Samuel Colt of Hartford, Connecticut, nearly 200 ...

The Colt single-action revolver belonged to Captain Myles Moylan, later a Medal of Honor recipient — and has an estimated ...

A new limited run of vintage Colt Model 1911 'Black Army' pistols were designed to invoke the World War I heritage of the M1911's original blackened finish that Colt used in lieu of the standard ...

Derek Landers explores how 19th-century American gunmakers produced cartridge revolvers while avoiding Smith & Wesson's ...

1825 ca. - Percussion-cap guns are in general use. 1830 - The back action lock appears. 1835 - The first Colt revolver. Samuel Colt developed the first mass-produced, multi-shot, revolving firearms.

38 Long Colt revolvers during the fight against the Moro warriors in the Philippine Insurrection of 1899-1902. But was the .38 Long Colt truly the abysmal failure that conventional wisdom makes it ...

Orion Wholesale, a distributor in the hunt and shooting sports industry, announced a partnership with Colt CZ Group SE to ...

Jesse James lived by the revolver, and he died by it as well. Throughout his career as a bushwhacker and robber, Jesse made use of Samuel Colt's revolutionary new pistol to inflict mayhem at close ...

Colt is no stranger to revolvers and the world of classic pistols. Their history with cylinder-fed pistols stretches back to 1835, when Samuel Colt patented the first revolver and founded..

Single Action Army (SAA), Model P, Peacemaker—whatever you want to call it—the revolver introduced by Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company in 1873 has one of the most recognizable ...

Nonetheless, the Remington Navy retained its handsome looks after conversion unlike the equally elegant Colt 1851 and 1860 conversion revolvers that look like a classical building with ...